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who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation;

and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we despaired even of life;

ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,

for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

for as many as [are] promises of God, in him [are] the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you -- in the person of Christ -- [I forgive it,]

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.